I am so obssed with Ted Allen. But I have a question does anyone have a good picture of Ted's ring?????? I need it for a story I'm writting if anyone has one if they would be so kind as to point me in the way to get a look of it!!!!!!! Thanks

Tomorrow, Ted's new book will be released to the masses. You can pre-order the book at the Amazon website, where you can see him pimp his book in a video or take a gander at a few of his recipes, or at Ted's official website, where you can get news and a listing of his tour stops. The following is all the latest known information so far relating to The Food You Want To Eat:

It's getting closer to October and the publicity train for Ted's new book is starting to gear up. You know what that means -- a book tour! Ted will be visiting cities like Carmel, Princeton, Chicago, and Atlanta (California is getting some special treatment with six scheduled stops). Here are the signings that Random House has listed so far (times subject to change, locations may be added, etc.):

A cooking class at the Institute of Culinary Education in NYC. The course is called "Remedial Romantic Dinner 101 with Queer Eye's Chef Ted Allen" and is scheduled for September 17th. Unfortunately, it's already full to capacity. :(

A cooking demonstration and signing at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. The event is part of the "Bon Appetit Y'all Tent" and will take place on October 29th and/or 30th. Yay for being in my neck of the woods. :)

Could anyone send me an mp3 of the theme song of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? THe full version of it. I lost my QEftSG cd *going nuts, I am*, and I'm gonna sing it for a production! Please help! I need it by Thursday...

Since no one seems to have noticed yet... Let's all give a big, boisterous "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!" to Kyan! The transcendentally hott grooming god turns a still-young 35 today :) My best bud and I are celebrating with cake and all the trimmings... ^_^ Anyone else throwing a bash?

hey new here. I love ted to death. he inspired me to start to love cooking so much. i reall want my future to have cooking in it. Maybe not so much as a official job to major in but have my life include cooking bigeer then just making food for dinners. Take classes and what not.

Are you considering a career in the exciting new field of gay-reality-makeover cable television? Good for you, tiger! Suddenly, you'll notice people hollering things at you from across the street like "[your name], Miami loves you!" and my favorite, "Do my husband!" It's a super feeling!

But perhaps the best fringe benefit of employ with Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, on which I'm the food-and-wine specialist, is this: I have not needed to purchase a men's-personal-grooming product since July 14, 2003. Thanks to the exceedingly thoughtful men's-skin-care industry, for more than a year I have shaved with only the finest emollients, tinctures, and poultices available for the daily pestilence that is facial-hair removal, from the staggeringly costly but deluxe mousse from the Art of Shaving ($14 for a tiny two-and-a-half-ounce tube!) to the silky and soothing frappé from Anthony Logistics for Men. Friends, I have tried them all now, and these two are among the best. But not long ago, the largesse of the men's-cosmetics cartel faltered. There I was, wet and shivering before the fogged-up mirror, with nothing to lather with but an ancient, rusty-bottomed can of Barbasol.

Concerned, I squirted a baseball-sized dollop of fluff into my palm and spread it across my scratchy mug, and—while perhaps lacking in aroma notes of rosemary and lemongrass—the stuff instantly transported me to my father's side, circa age 12. And that was great. Like Old Spice, like Brylcreem, the old-school shaving cream evokes another, manlier time, when boys learned how to shave from their fricking fathers—not from the Bravo network. (You've got to admit, guys, that we're doing the Lord's work here!) And unless you've got crazily bad razor bumps, it's probably all you're ever gonna need. Meanwhile: I love ya, Dad.

For this month's special package on the heart, contributing editor TED ALLEN reports on a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), in which the heart's septum is dangerously enlarged, blocking the flow of blood and, in many cases, causing death. The disease, which affects one in five hundred people, tends to be an inherited condition and is a leading cause of sudden death among young athletes. Allen traveled to Prague, where he interviewed an American expatriate with HCM who recently underwent a cutting-edge procedure called alcohol septal ablation, in which German cardiologist Hubert Seggewiss inflicted a small heart attack in order to kill the excess tissue. "You've taken an oath to first do no harm, and here you are about to very delicately cause a heart attack on a patient who is wide-awake and watching you," says Allen. "It's incredibly dramatic and just so alien to people. It made me really consider my own mortality."

Anyway, this is starting to bug me, does anyone know whether Ted wears his ring on his right hand or his left? 'cause I'm coming up pretty half and half in photos and interviews and on QE and such. Does he switch it back and forth for any real reason? Or am I just delusional and a crazed stalker? *blinks* Any theories would be appreciated. ^^'